First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required and o… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and third — -before long the best lines cancel out — -and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the picture have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true.